Liquid-crystalline ordering in polymer brushes

被引:21
作者
Birshtein, TM
Mercurieva, AA
Pryamitsyn, VA
Polotzkiy, A
机构
[1] Inst. of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199004 St.-Petersburg, 31 Bolshoy pr., V. O.
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10.1002/mats.1996.040050204
中图分类号
O63 [高分子化学(高聚物)];
学科分类号
070305 ; 080501 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The mean-field theory of liquid crystalline (LC) ordering is developed for a polymer brush immersed in a solvent. Additional attraction between neighbouring parallel mesogenic segments of the grafted chains is taken into account. It is shown that LC ordering in this brush is connected with the loss of solubility and occurs as a discrete first-order phase transition which is similar or even identical to the transition in polymer solution.
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